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Re-Thinking Your Post-Open Celebratory Meal: How Many Calories Do You REALLY Burn During the Open Workout? So we are four weeks into the Open and we can all attest to the fact that the Open brings out another intensity level. The Friday Night Lights, or the Saturday Showdowns where you are head to head with all the other athletes in the gym and people are cheering, your judge is watching, your legs are burning, and your heart is beating out of your chest. And unlike the day to day class workouts, we find ourselves laid out on the floor

If you’re my age you will undoubtedly remember the phrase “I’m getting too old for this shit,” uttered by Detective Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been training since you were in your teenage years or if you’re brand new to the scene of fitness. When you hit your 30’s, then your mid 30’s then your, ugh, late 30’s and beyond, training becomes increasingly focused on the prep and the post-workout portions of your time. This is because as we age there is a lot of changeability in the situational factors that define each of our

What are your goals? Let’s set some goals! There is a lot of talk about goals and how to achieve them – especially by us, your friendly coaches at OCF. But there are a lot of us out there that really think that we know what we want. We may have a goal that we are attacking in private because as my mom would say “big talkers little doers” and a lot of us have that mind set. I do as well, and I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I get one of those goals done. But do